Hey, everybody, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast. Yesterday we were talking about that

little speech I got as a first-time author. We're helpful people. We're like, this is the kind of

stuff you're going to see now. So get ready for that. And then we likewise to that to something much,

much, much, much, much, much more significant, which is the scene we get here in

John 1, where we're wrapping up this initial week of Jesus being out and about and doing stuff,

and Jesus is assembling the beginnings of his party, who he's going to roll through this story with,

and at the end of chapter 1, he offers this cryptic,

but very exciting promise about all the stuff that the disciples are going to see. And I think,

if we look a little bit closer at the language behind the text, we're going to see that that promise to the disciples,

that you're going to see some amazing stuff, is also a promise to the reader, to you and me.

Maybe I'm stretching it, but I don't think so. Let's take a look at it. All right,

it's a situation we got here. Toward the end of John chapter one, we meet Philip and Nathaniel.

Now, we don't call Nathaniel Bartholomew here in John,

but usually because of the way the list of disciples plays out.

Historically, Christians have associated Nathaniel and Bartholomew together.

A lot of people had more than one name in Bible

times. I mean, just the two sentences before we meet, Nathaniel, we got a guy who has two names,

Simon, Peter, but also really Seifus, so kind of three names. So not that weird. Probably the

guy we're looking at here is Nathaniel slash

Bartholomew when you see him around the other Gospels. And as we've discussed, Nathaniel has

got a bit of a snarky streak to him. He's not from Beth Seda up near Copernium on the Sea of

Galilee, where Philip and Andrew and Peter are from.

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